{"id":598019,"date":"2026-04-11T23:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T23:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/598019\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T23:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T23:50:10","slug":"edmonton-womens-shelter-closes-after-city-denies-lease-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/598019\/","title":{"rendered":"Edmonton women&#8217;s shelter closes after city denies lease extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1 hour ago<a class=\"video-base-category-link\" aria-label=\"Content area News\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/player\/news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a>Duration 1:09<\/p>\n<p id=\"MainContentDescription\">Edmonton is down nearly 100 shelter spaces after the city declined to renew the lease of the Elizabeth Fry Society&#8217;s shelter. The land in the northeast of the city has been providing shelter to more than 3,400 people since opening in 2024. A city spokesperson says that while the shelter is important, the land it was on was never intended for long-term use. Emily Fitzpatrick has more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1 hour agoNewsDuration 1:09 Edmonton is down nearly 100 shelter spaces after the city declined to renew the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-598019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}